Sacrifice Quotes - Page 27

• self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Self, Deception, Abuse

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Humble, Ancient

  "Recessional" st. 2 (1897)

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• it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Possibility, Lost, Fulfilling

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• To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

  Judith Martin

  Ignorance, Compassion, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Joy, May

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.89

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• sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Action, Cloaks, Motive

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• Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Spring, Promise, Coming Back

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”

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• I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Self, Noble, Knows

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.111, A&C Black

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• It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Religion, Church

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17

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• a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Poor, Made

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Play, Self, Giving

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Light, Flames

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Drams: The Search After Happiness, A. Other Poems”, p.104

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• we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

  Hannah More

  Feelings, Age, Principles

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• In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

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• The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Kindness, Believe

  Samuel Smiles (1883). “Duty”

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• Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Self, Law

  "Justice and Fraternity". Journal des Économistes, June 15, 1848.

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• Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the table. You sometimes make creative sacrifices to get the job done. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting out of the two-book-a-year schedule I'm on and to getting some self-indulgence going.

  Charlie Huston

  Art, Jobs, Book

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• Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Energy, Valuable

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

  George Sand

  Self, Virtue, Eternal

  George Sand (1847). “Jacques”, p.133

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• Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

  Muriel Rukeyser

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• There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Courage, Names, Media

  Aung San Suu Kyi (2010). “Letters From Burma”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Self, Shrines, Definitions

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• There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

  Baroness Orczy

  Self, Wonderful

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Kindness, Opportunity, Starting Up

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